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...little too closely, his believable performance shows his range as an actor—something his meager part in the recent “Quantum of Solace” did not. Together, Chess and Waters—along with songwriter Willie Dixon, played by Cedric the Entertainer—begin to construct the Chess empire. Dixon’s voiceover, which opens and closes the film, serves as a narrative frame for the entire film. Waters and Little Walter, played by Columbus Short, popularize a blues style that is copied by other artists, destroying their chances at mainstream success. Chess...
...other rappers making generic club music, but on “Universal Mind Control,” any rhythmic complexity in his delivery is completely negated by the oppressive regularity of the underlying beats. The production is slick but entirely unimaginative. The first six tracks on the album all begin with the same technique, a four-beat repetition of the first measure of the instrumental track followed immediately by the full instrumental and vocal tracks. The album is entirely devoid of live instrumentation, as if it had emerged of its own volition from a primordial soup of ProTools loops...
This doesn't mean Muji isn't aiming for bigger profits; the team also creates high-end furniture. But Yasui doesn't see it as a contradiction with the Muji brand. "We think of what we want and why it doesn't exist. That's where we begin...
...have no idea at all, honestly,” Greenblatt said. “But I’m very hopeful that the University will begin to move in the direction that the task force is calling for right...
...some people backing him up. Despite the recent downturn, analysts remain bullish on the prospects of the China market. Lin says the car market will begin to pick up again in the second half of 2009, bolstered by the giant government economic stimulus packages that have recently been laid out in Beijing. That money, he argues, will rebuild confidence among nervous consumers. "In the long term, the China market is still quite promising," Lin says. Though that is undoubtedly true, the road getting there will be a bumpy...